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Batnum

1967 Puzzle

Batnum, a portmanteau of "battle of numbers" is an early BASIC game based on the family of "object pile" games, which includes Nim. The player and computer take turns removing objects from a pile, with there being a set minimum and maximum amount of objects that can be removed per turn. The objective is to force the computer to take the last object.

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Batnum, a portmanteau of "battle of numbers" is an early BASIC game based on the family of "object pile" games, which includes Nim. The player and computer take turns removing objects from a pile, with there being a set minimum and maximum amount of objects that can be removed per turn. The objective is to force the computer to take the last object.

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Publisher
Digital Equipment Corporation
Franchise
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Single player
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Themes
Non-fiction
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Platform releases

  • PDP-10 Feb 22, 1967

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